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CBTA Allied Square Table: Travel Management Trends and
2013 Hotel RFP Preview
CBTA Allied Square Table: Travel Management Trends and 2013 Hotel RFP Preview Mary Ann McNultyExecutive Editor The BTN Group
CBTA Allied Square Table: Travel Management Trends and 2013 Hotel RFP Preview
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AGENDA
It’s Still The Economy
…But Now Global Impact
Corporate Travel Demand, Supply
Corporate Travel Contracting
Policies, Mandates and More
Hot Topics: Open Booking, Mobile, ?
RFP Season Preview
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FEDS: TRAVEL STRONG
US Federal Reserve: travel and tourism activity "strong" across many reporting districts, with hotel and convention bookings continuing to "exceed last year's pace.“
“Overall economic activity continued to expand at a modest to moderate pace in June and early July. The Atlanta, St. Louis and San Francisco districts reported modest growth, while Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Dallas described economic activity as advancing moderately.”
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ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Fed Says: Deceleration
Amadeus CEO: “Next 6-12 Months Tough”
Low Job Growth
Election Wait-and-See
Oil prices and impact
Will Corps Slow Travel Spending??
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ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Up: AirPlus, Marriott, UK Guild of TMCs
Amex corporate travel spending down 4%, 2nd
quarter in a row
HRG: TRX down 3%, spending down 7%
ARC: mega TRX in June -6.5%, largest drop in 32 months
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HEADLINES: Booking Volume
Pegasus: Hotel reservations booked via GDS in June declined 10.6% worldwide, by 13.9% in North America.
Why? Cycles
Average rates paid for hotels through GDS up 3% globally year-over-year, by 6% in NA
Outside NA, average rate down by 1.7% as June GDS bookings fell 5.9%
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Mandates & Policy Compliance
Policy compliance focus last 18 months
Non-reimbursement, partial reimbursement
Pre-trip approvals, audits, communications
Is 50% good enough?
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Managed vs. Unmanaged
Open Booking concepts
Supplier site bookings, but…
At negotiated rates
Data collected
Concur, ProcureApp, GDSX
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Mobile and More
Mobile growth adoption skyrocketing
Surpassing other adoption
Booking, expense reporting, messaging
Still, numbers low
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2013 Hotel RFP Preview
Hotels: Corporate rate hikes 7%
Buyers: Expect increases closer to 3.5%
~ Bjorn Hanson, NYU Tisch Center for Hospitality divisional dean
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RFP Considerations
Are negotiated rates way to go?
Best way to secure, load, audit rates?
Which RFP tool to use?
Benefits of negotiated rates?
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HEADLINES: Marriott
Marriott CEO: Rate increases in high single-digit percentages in upcoming negotiations.
Corp. rates remain “meaningfully lower than in 2007.”
Rates +4.3% in June quarter vs. March
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HEADLINES: Starwood
Starwood CEO: 2013 Corp. Rate Hikes To Outpace Last Year’s
Starwood ADR Last Quarter:
+ 3.8% in North America
+ 1.1% in Latin America
- 7% in Europe
- 4.5% in Africa and Middle East
Flat in Asia-Pac